DNASTAR Expands Software Distribution Network through Agreement with BGI LifeTech Ltd in China

DNASTAR, a leading bioinformatics software company, today announced that it has signed a software distribution agreement with BGI LifeTech, Beijing, PR China. . Under terms of the Agreement, BGI LifeTech will have rights to sell DNASTAR’s Lasergene, ArrayStar, SeqMan Genome Assembler and GenVision in the Peoples Republic of China and Hong Kong.

DNASTAR’s software is used by molecular biologists in the areas of sequence analysis, microarray gene expression analysis and genomic visualizations. It has recently introduced the first desktop software that can be used for assembly and analysis of multiple Next Generation sequence platforms.

BGI LifeTech Ltd is a sequencing service provider and molecular biology products distributor throughout China and Hong Kong. The company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the prestigious Beijing Genomics Institute, was founded in 2002 by Dr Huanming Yang and three colleagues.

Bob Steinhauser, DNASTAR’s Director of Sales Marketing, “China is an emerging biotechnology powerhouse. To position ourselves to be part of that, we need a strong distribution partner that knows the sequencing and microarray market there and at the same time understands the many issues related to software and the service business. BGI LifeTech Ltd’s business model, their affiliation with the Genomics Institute and their strong interest to expand their commercial business make them a good distribution candidate for our software. We believe that the local market knowledge BGI LifeTech Ltd will bring in DNA sequencing and gene expression, along with our growing product line, will be very beneficial to each of us.”